"Father, let me take the head of this insolent fool for you!"
Seeing Shang agree to let him act, Ming immediately shouted in excitement. Wielding the Bronze Halberd, he charged forward.
He had inherited Shang's bloodline. Not only was he immensely strong—strong enough to tear tigers and leopards apart with his bare hands—but he also possessed a unique divine ability. At that moment, he opened his mouth and spewed forth thick flames and smoke.
"What nerve!"
The Minor Minister of Fate across from him smiled and pointed a finger. The flames and dense smoke vanished completely.
A white line flashed.
Ming's expression suddenly turned blank as he reached for his neck.
A crimson line of blood appeared. Then his head simply fell off.
Shang, Tang, and the others stared at the scene, stunned.
Ming had been one of Shang's strongest sons. He could spew blazing flames and had once slain an Exotic Beast, Zhang, all by himself!
Even among Shang's hundreds of sons, he had ranked near the top. Yet now, he had just died... died...
"You are merely human, while I am a god!"
The Minor Minister of Fate was as haughty as a phoenix. "If I allowed you to disturb the Queen Mother of the West's peace, that would be my greatest sin!"
The Queen Mother of the West's divine status had been conferred by Zhong Shenxiu through the authority of the Creator. She could be considered one of the foremost existences in the incense-divine system, ranking half a level above a Corpse Release Immortal.
Although she was worlds apart from the True Gods and other Great Existences, and was merely an empty shell, her divine power still had to wait for this world to mature. Only when its yin force grew sufficiently powerful could she return to